Wanda Nicholson

Dr. Wanda Nicholson is a physician dually trained in obstetrics and gynecology and epidemiology, current Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and a researcher in perinatal and women’s population health. Her research portfolio has centered on social determinants of health and perinatal diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly postpartum CVD prevention. She views women’s health as maternal health and maternal health as an indicator of the social/economic environments where women live and work. Dr. Wanda Nicholson is committed to creating a strategic vision for population health for organizations and developing and operationalizing research priorities and performance measures for value-based care and better health outcomes. At GW, she teaches the course, Translating Evidence into Practice for Primary Care settings.

She currently serves as a MPI for a NIH-funded study of long-term outcomes among 2,500 women following gynecologic surgery, and an American Diabetes Association grant on prevention of type 2 diabetes through a healthy dietary lifestyle intervention. She is a former Associate Editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, former Chair of the Committee on Childbirth and Postpartum Hemorrhage for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and served on the board of directors for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has been interviewed by multiple media on prevention as well as Medscape, Vogue and Elle.